Kevin Ohashi - Entrepreneur I Love Learning New Things.

Business:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/16/AR200901...
Tax Havens for Bailed Out Companies?

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Circuit-City-to-be-liquidated-rb-14083189....
Circuit City... Goodbye

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/technology/personaltech/15basics.html?...
2 monitors improves productivity by around 44%

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/01/economic_distre.html
Bruce Schneier on how fear controls us

Web:
http://www.jasonnazar.com/2009/01/14/the-7-ways-to-get-traffic-on-the-we...

Good morning denizens of the internet, as promised, reading of the day has resumed! The first link is under a new title, favorite, my favorite article of the group and if you're going to ignore most of my links, don't ignore that one.

Favorite:
http://mywifequitherjob.com/2009/01/14/reader-response-should-i-go-to-co...
Should you start a business or go to college? (GREAT WEBSITE -- recommend this too: http://mywifequitherjob.com/2008/10/02/are-you-cut-out-to-be-an-entrepre... )

Business:

I've returned back from the holidays and will start to try and more regularly post some interesting articles again :) I also wanted to share a few pictures from my vacation in Slovakia.

Low Tatras at Night with Mars(or Mercury?) in the background
Sun rising over low tatras
Sunrise over the Low Tatras
View of High Tatras from Low Tatras

Happy New Year Everyone!

Business:
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2008/tc20081228_809309...
The Web's Free Labor Economy

http://mashable.com/2008/12/24/free-brand-monitoring-tools/
Brand Monitoring Tools

http://blogs.zappos.com/blogs/ceo-and-coo-blog/2008/12/27/everything-i-k...
Everything I Know About Business I Learned From Poker

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123025736834034741.html
The Economics News Isn't All Bleak

Education:
http://bookoutlines.pbwiki.com/Predictably-Irrational

Merry Christmas to everyone. Regardless of whether you celebrate/believe in it, I wish everyone a good day and hope you all get to spend it with family and friends :)

Business:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wmliu/3121970551/sizes/o/
Brands after the financial crisis (pic)

News:
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/17-01/ff_max_butler?current...
Insight into life of a real hacker who tried to dominate the cyber black market

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/dec/22/50-things-we-know-now-we-didnt-k...
50 Things we didnt know last year

Website Development:
http://www.seobook.com/keyword-research-strategy-flowchart
Aaron Wall's keyword research flowchart, helpful for thinking through what keywords matter

Business:
http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/apr2007/sb20070425_158557.h...
HOW TO MAKE A GOOD IMPRESSION. READ IT. "Business is far too competitive to risk making a bad impression. But it's not that hard to make a positive one. Just think about the way you like to be treated as a client."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/387008...
Beggar Thy Neighbor? DO we forget history so easily?

Here are some key quotes:

While we acknowledge the effort and hard work involved in producing the documents currently out for comment, it is unclear that the threshold question of whether the potential consumer benefits outweigh the potential costs has been adequately addressed and determined. In that regard, we would like to call your attention a decision of the ICANN Board in October 18, 2006, that called for an economic study to address questions such as:

• whether the domain registration market is one market or whether each TLD functions as a separate market,
  

Business:
http://blog.slickedit.com/?p=255
Eliminating the Programmer - why you just can't do it. And stop trying to.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/12/googlewashing_revisited/
Google gone wrong? Google fundamentally changing the way their ranking system works, taking human input.

Education:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions
Want to feel a lot smarter today? Start by reading this.

News:
http://www.money.co.uk/article/1002279-hackers-responsible-for-illegal-d...

Goran Ericsson and John Garcia from Innovateur Capital, LLC gave this presentation at MINC in Malmo, Sweden. It is broken down into 7 parts:
Part 1